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Air defenses down 25 drones over Sevastopol, Black Sea — governor

TASS · 🇷🇺 public Russia · · 84 words
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Governor Mikhail Razvozhatyev reported that Russian air defenses shot down 25 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles over Sevastopol and the Black Sea. The governor stated that drone debris caused power outages by damaging a high-voltage power line.

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Claims checked 3
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What happened

Air defenses have shot down 25 unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) over the Crimean city of Sevastopol and the Black Sea, the city’s Governor Mikhail Razvozhatyev said.

Why it matters

"In Sevastopol, air defense units and our mobile fire teams are repelling a Ukrainian attack.

Common ground

Twenty-five UAVs have been shot down over the sea and various parts of the city," he wrote on Russia’s national messenger Max.

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Governor Mikhail Razvozhatyev reported that Russian air defenses shot down 25 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles over Sevastopol and the Black Sea. The governor stated that drone debris caused power outages by damaging a high-voltage power line.

open_in_new Read the original article: https://tass.com/politics/2131881

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fact_checkClaims Checked

eFinder analyzed this article and checked 3 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “Governor Mikhail Razvozhatyev said... "Twenty-five UAVs have been shot down over the sea and various parts of the city"”
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While one source mentions Governor Mikhail Razvozhaev reporting a 'most massive' attack, none of the provided evidence sources contain the specific quote or the number 'twenty-five' attributed to him.
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web search NEUTRAL — Sevastopol, sometimes written Sebastopol, is the largest city in Crimea and a major port on the Black Sea. Due to its strategic location and the navigability of the city's harbours, Sevastopol has bee…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sevastopol
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web search NEUTRAL — Sevastopol is the largest city in the region and home to Russia's Black Sea fleet. Mikhail Razvozhaev, the Russian-installed governor of the city, said Russia's navy had repelled the latest attack - t…
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-63437212
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web search NEUTRAL — One person was killed and three were wounded in the Moscow Region, the governor said.Elon Musk suggests Ukraine is to blame for today's Twitter outages: "There was a massive cyber attack to try to bri…
https://liveuamap.com/en/2025/11-march-05-337-drones-were-sh…
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Claim 2: “Air defenses have shot down 25 unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) over the Crimean city of Sevastopol and the Black Sea”
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The provided evidence does not contain any mention of 25 UAVs being shot down on May 17. One search result mentions the governor announcing the number increased to six, but there is no evidence in the provided set confirming the specific number of 25 for the date or event described.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Black Sea Fleet (Russian: Черноморский флот, romanized: Chernomorskiy flot) is the fleet of the Russian Navy in the Black Sea, the Sea of Azov and the Mediterranean Sea. The Black Sea Fleet, along…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Sea_Fleet
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Admiral Essen is a frigate of the Admiral Grigorovich class of the Russian Navy named in honour of Admiral Nikolai Ottovich von Essen. The ship construction began at the Yantar Shipyard in Kaliningrad…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_frigate_Admiral_Essen
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Ukrainian Navy (Ukrainian: Військово-морські сили Збройних сил України, ВМС ЗСУ, romanized: Viiskovo–morski syly Zbroinykh syl Ukrainy, VMS ZSU, lit. 'Military Naval Forces of the Armed Forces of …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukrainian_Navy
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Claim 3: “drone debris has damaged a high-voltage power line, causing disruptions in electricity supplies”
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The evidence mentions drone attacks hitting a substation in Crimea leading to blackouts, and a separate incident where a high-voltage line was damaged in Kyiv. However, there is no specific evidence in the provided text confirming that drone debris damaged a high-voltage power line specifically in Sevastopol causing disruptions.
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web search NEUTRAL — How atmospheric electricity works to generate electricity to power things, like a corona motor, an electrostatic motor.Support RimstarOrg on Patreon https
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rVdEhyMR6A
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web search NEUTRAL — Struggling on Front Lines, Ukraine Strikes Harder at Russian Energy. A huge drone attack targeted southwestern Russia and the Russian-occupied peninsula of Crimea, hitting oil facilities and a substat…
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/17/world/europe/sevastopol-u…
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web search NEUTRAL — Russian drone attack damages high-voltage line in Kyiv – DTEK.The debris caused damage to windows in two two-story residential buildings and one administrative building. This was the twentieth aerial …
https://english.nv.ua/nation/dtek-s-high-voltage-line-is-dam…
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